I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.

I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

If you cannot change the reality of other people, their reality will become yours.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.